Word: indo-china
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...when he declared that he would never run for President again, he might have been suspected last week of acting like a candidate. The governor announced that he would set off this month (after getting briefed by General MacArthur) for the Korean fighting front and would also visit Japan, Indo-China, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand and Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
When Senator Kenneth Wherry, Republican floor leader and onetime Nebraska mortician, made reference last week to "the Senator from New Michigan," gallery regulars promptly added it to their growing list of Wherryisms. Samples: addressing the chair as "Mr. Paragraph," offering a comment as "my unanimous opinion," referring to Indo-China as "Indigo China" and the old War Department Civil Functions Bill as the Civil War Functions Bill, calling Spessard Holland of Florida "the Senator from Holland" and Oregon's Wayne Morse "the distinguished Senator from junior...
...organizing what later became the French First Army. Young Bernard enlisted in the Free French army in 1944, landed with the Allies in the south of France, went on with the French army into Germany, won a Medaille Militaire and a Croix de Guerre with palm. Last week, in Indo-China, Lieut. Bernard de Lattre, 23, won his second Croix de Guerre...
...days after the battle, General Jean de Lattre flew home to France. In his big Douglas Skymaster in three coffins were the bodies of French soldiers, killed in Indo-China, sent home for burial in France. One of them was the body of his only...
Died. Lieut. Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny, 23, only son of General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Commander in Chief of French forces in Indo-China; of battle wounds received while leading his Viet Nam infantry company against Communist-led Viet Minh forces; 20 miles south of Hanoi, French Indo-China (see FOREIGN NEWS...